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Cracking Vietnam's Internet Lockdown
Can Mean Life or Death for Start-Ups

By

Michelle Levander Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Nov. 10, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam -- Since co-founding Extramedia Pte Ltd., Steve Paris and his business pals have secured millions of dollars in venture capital, set up branches in Switzerland, China, and the U.S., and built a Vietnamese software center that creates Web applications to drive this New Age incubator's seven start-ups.

That was the easy part.

Then Mr. Paris, a seasoned Vietnam hand from New Zealand, set out on an...